{"id":346648,"date":"2023-11-14T23:51:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T00:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=346648"},"modified":"2023-11-15T03:02:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T03:02:49","slug":"djokovic-booed-as-streak-ended-by-young-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=346648","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic booed as streak ended by young star"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cheered on by a raucous home crowd, Jannik Sinner<\/a> recorded his first win over top-ranked Novak Djokovic<\/a> at the ATP Finals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sinner triumphed 7-5, 6-7(5), 7-6(2) in a match spanning more than three hours on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n

It was the 22-year-old Sinner's first win over Djokovic in four meetings and ended the Serbian player's 19-match winning streak that stretched back to his five-set loss to Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> in the Wimbledon<\/a> final.<\/p>\n

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Sinner sealed the result when he hammered down a smash at the net to send the Turin arena into a frenzy.<\/p>\n

\"Italy's<\/p>\n

The umpire had to tell the fans to be quiet several times as they fervently cheered their idol on and also booed Djokovic.<\/p>\n

The 36-year-old Djokovic, who normally enjoys huge support in Italy, lapped up the boos and even encouraged the fans to up their hostility toward him.<\/p>\n

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Sinner, who beat Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-4, 6-4 in the tournament opener, is now on the verge of reaching the semi-finals. He next plays Holger Rune, who has one win after Tsitsipas retired early in their green group match and withdrew from the tournament<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Djokovic, who is looking to break a tie with Federer and capture a record seventh title at the tour finals, will play first alternate Hubert Hurkacz.<\/p>\n

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The Italian crowd went wild when Sinner smashed the winner to seal his first victory over Djokovic.\ufeff<\/p>\n

"It means a lot to me," he said on-court.<\/p>\n

"When you \ufeffwin against the world No.1, and he's won 24 grand slams, it's obviously in the top top.<\/p>\n

"At moments we both were serving really well… but I felt like it was a really tactic\ufeffal match, and I managed to win so I'm very happy."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cheered on by a raucous home crowd, Jannik Sinner recorded his first win over top-ranked Novak Djokovic at the ATP Finals. Sinner triumphed 7-5, 6-7(5), […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":346650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=346648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346651,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346648\/revisions\/346651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/346650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}